Comments on: Sports Drinks vs. Water http://blog.bikeridr.com/2009/02/sports-drinks-vs-water/ The adventures, rants and ramblings of Ken & Sheldon, two guys who like to ride bikes. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brthomas - Fruit-Ade homemade sports drink http://blog.bikeridr.com/2009/02/sports-drinks-vs-water/comment-page-1/#comment-576 brthomas - Fruit-Ade homemade sports drink Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:25:13 +0000 http://blog.bikeridr.com/?p=660#comment-576 My hydration fruit-ade homemade sports drink recipe dilutes the fruit juice to the desired sugar concentration and then adds a little salt http://brt-insights.blogspot.com/2009/09/hydration-fruit-ade-natural-fruit.html so there is no need to add any refined sugar. It doesn't contain any of the chemical additives used in the commercial sports drinks. My hydration fruit-ade homemade sports drink recipe dilutes the fruit juice to the desired sugar concentration and then adds a little salt
http://brt-insights.blogspot.com/2009/09/hydration-fruit-ade-natural-fruit.html
so there is no need to add any refined sugar. It doesn’t contain any of the chemical additives used in the commercial sports drinks.

]]> By: Ken Hurd http://blog.bikeridr.com/2009/02/sports-drinks-vs-water/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Ken Hurd Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:08:56 +0000 http://blog.bikeridr.com/?p=660#comment-65 Yeah, this is going to be something that I'm going to have to experiment with when the snow starts to disappear and I start heading out on longer rides... Should I use something like a Gatorade powder and simply water it down, or should I just keep water in my pack and keep an actual full-strength energy drink on the bike? I think experimentation will be key – Another thing that seems to be gaining in popularity are the 'electrolyte tabs' or something like that... Too many choices ;-) Yeah, this is going to be something that I’m going to have to experiment with when the snow starts to disappear and I start heading out on longer rides…

Should I use something like a Gatorade powder and simply water it down, or should I just keep water in my pack and keep an actual full-strength energy drink on the bike?

I think experimentation will be key – Another thing that seems to be gaining in popularity are the ‘electrolyte tabs’ or something like that… Too many choices ;-)

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